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If I ever heal up? I think a snow bike would be an amazing research tool. We obviously cannot keep up on foot. But a snow trackway being followed on a snow bike is sure to produce results. You cannot go straight up the mountain like a sled, but you can finesse your way through almost anything. They are dropping into creek bottoms I would never consider with a sled. Throw a drone in a backpack? I don’t think Sasquatch escapes without being seen, filmed, whatever. These things go any where.

I have seen no convincing data to suggest they as a population go all the way to the coast here in the PNW, I do find good data to suggest they come down in elevation. We have had activity in December, January, February, March and April here at various locations in WA. The below video is a fair example ( I personally went to this location a few years ago based on a number of winter reports including this track find, I was able to get in touch with the investigator who was on the scene at the time. ), the tracks came from up above ( small knobs and benches on the slope side at about 2200ft on the high end ) on the west side of Shannon Lake and Baker Lake that are both loaded with miles and miles of thick/marshy timber patches that are tough to hunt and penetrate. They came from the timber uphill and both jumped off a rock ledge over 12 feet up to get down to the edge of that community, they crossed the road and went up onto someone's porch and got into a charcoal grill likely out of desperation looking for food ( fat drippings ? ). I don't remember at the moment where they retreated to but it was generally back into timber up slope. Here is a side angle photo of the terrain and direction the prints came from, everything below the blue line would all be winter habitat under my theory. This would not encompass the entire space they use but rather a section of the loop or cycle they likely run along. The Gold pin in the back end of the photo is separate encounter report from years later in late November. For full context and accuracy I will note that this trackway from what we could gather is legitimate but after the investigation, word got around the community and someone got back in touch and with another trackway soon after and that trackway was clearly hoaxed and fabricated, the prints looked nothing like the original tracks and showed no dexterity of the foot or toes, lacked any of the athleticism and started in stopped at highly questionable places. They seem to hold up in very difficult and hard to access locations and move in changing weather conditions from one low human activity area to another.

Excellent event report. I'm always impressed with your YouTube videos as well, Nathan. I appreciate the video.

It’s always this time of year that I wonder what they do in winter. We get typically four feet of snow here in the valleys. Do they migrate to the coast? Do they stockpile and hunker down? Do they migrate south? Do they retreat down low in elevation and hunt? I saw tracks in December. Those tracks were heading south for whatever that means.

This map has been offered as locations of bigfoot sightings/ reports. When we look at Canada, we might think from the map there are very few reports of Bigfoot in Canada. The map is deceiving. Here is a map of where most people live in Canada. The majority live pretty close to the USA Canadian border. I have never been to Canada. The winters in the Middle and Northern Canada are more extreme than Canada just above Seattle Washington. There are large areas of Canada (or Russia for that matter) where few people go. Large areas as large as Texas might have very few people. The only limiting factor to many of these areas is just how extreme the winters could be and any limited food supply as a result. There is more food to eat on Gilligan's Island than the North Pole (sorry Santa). When I look at the bigfoot map, I am immediately skeptical of these places marked in the great planes. We need to be honest and say that all reports are not created equal. Just because someone gives a report does not mean it has the same Grade or Credibility as other reports. Finally, just because there are no reports to an area does not mean there are even people there to even give a report.

Elite body builders in the 1970's world would eat 5,000 a day. These guys trained nearly daily. The output of their 'work' to me would equal or way exceed what Bigfoot would put out in a given day in Bigfoots world. That's just my guess as a max for reasonable estimate. Yes, these guys weighed under 250lbs back in the 1970's Gold's Gym era of weightlifting. I would think Bigfoot would only be as active as Bigfoot needs to be. Bigfoot would rest often and essentially be a couch potato until food, reproductive needs, or whatever motivated Bigfoot. Skeptics are skeptics because these reasonable points about Life Support make them skeptics. We should expect if bigfoot is as common as some say, we should have more of these sightings in trash cans, and so on. Trash cans tend to exist in towns and cities vs out in the middle of nowhere. Many have security cameras and Ring doorbells. The most likely reason to explain this must be Bigfoot are few in number, live in massively remote areas, and are shy to human activity. I don't know how credible Bigfoot sightings are when all over the country. Many are just in unlikely places and unlikely regions. I am sure they see something just not bigfoot. If Bigfoot was in all these areas the trash cans would be raided, the farms would be raided, and so on. Bigfoot being near extinct is a better explanation vs attributing ninja skills to bigfoot to explain it. If you bet on finding Bigfoot, you would bet on the PNW more so than downtown NY City.

WELCOME TO THE FORUM AND MELLOW OUT........WE CAN ACCEPT YOU THEN. WE ARE BIGFOOTERS SO LIGHTEN UP ON THE POLICE AND ATTORNEY EXPERIENCE.And? What's your point? If you read what I wrote, you would also see that I LEOs in my statement. I speak from experience as a 27 year police veteran and actual shooter with over 30 years in USPSA, IDPA, ISPC, 3Gun, and PPC. Armorer, custom gun builder and trainer at not one, but two academies. So, I am not speaking from inexperience or ignorance. BUT YOU ARE TURNING OFF YOUR AUDIENCE BY BEING OVER BERING.........SETTLE DOWN AND WE WILL LISTEN TO YOUR KNOWLEDGE. GET SOME LORAZAPAMS BY PERSCRIPTION. Yay, you got to put your two cents in. Add another five bucks and you can get yourself a latte...but the fact remains that the extreme vast majority of gun owners are woefully ignorant of their safe handling, let alone competent to mount a defense in a dynamic critical incident. AGREED I am 110% PRO 2A and don't even believe any state or municipality has the authority to regulate ownership or carry...in a free society the burden lies on the citizen, but the fact remains that people simply make the choice NOT to get training, choose NOT to practice what they learned in training, and make the choice NOT to gain any level of competence. THE AVERAGE PERSON SHOULD BE PROFICIENT WITH A 38 REVOLVER TO PROTECT THE HOME. I WENT THROUGH MARINE CORPS TRAINING BY RETURNING BY COMBAT HARDENED MARINES. REWRITE THIS PARAGRAPH IN A LESS CONDENSENDING MANNER. How many post critical incident videos have you had to professionally evaluate for either prosecution or defense? How many dynamic critical incidents have YOU been involved in? RATHER THAN PUTTING THE MAN DOWN........................... TELL US OF THE "DYNAMIC CRITICAL INCIDENTS" THAT YOU HAVE BEEN IN. WE CAN ALL LEARN THEN. How many times have you had to sit through tens of dozens of hours of post critical incident testimony or deposition? How many times have you sat in a courtroom as an expert witness, or as a consulting attorney for other attorneys in self defense cases? GIVE EXAMPLES And finally, how many books have YOU written on self defense law, techniques, and post critical incident survival that have been court recognized and accepted? (For me, so far it's TWO of those). How many CLEs (Continuing Legal Education) have YOU written and delivered to other attorneys after you retired from LE and went to law school? (For me....nearly a dozen written with ten times that delivered). So yay....you ran a gun shop. Good goobledy goo for you, but don't pretend doing your chicken dance from behind a retail counter and not on the range or in a courtroom and dropping a faux anecdote about poorly maintained weapons coming from LEOs is anything less than mouth waddling because of personal hubris.YOU HAVE TAUGHT LITTLE TO THOSE WHO NEED TO KNOW. THANKS FOR TRYING, MELLOW OUT, AND WHILE STEPPING WATCH FOR TOES.